Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 63, Reach New Heights, and Reveal the Unknown. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host

today. So if you're new to the show, we bring in NASA experts and talk about all the different

parts of this space agency and sometimes we get lucky enough to bring in some of our leaders here

at NASA. So today we're talking with Jim Bridenstein and Mark Geier.

Mr. Bridenstein is the 13th administrator of NASA, sworn in on April 23rd, 2018.

And Mr. Geier is the 12th director of the Johnson Space Center as of May 25th 2018 both very recent leaders.

So a little bit about our administrator.

Bridenstein's career in federal service began in the US Navy, flying the E2C Hawkeye off the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.

It was there he flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and accrued more than 1,900 flight

hours and 333 carrier arrested landings. He later moved to the F-18

Hornet and flew at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, the parent command to Top Gun.

After transitioning from active duty to the U.S. Navy Reserve,

Brindstein returned to Tulsa, Oklahoma to be the Executive Director of the Tulsa Air and Space

Museum and Planetarium.

Brindstein was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in 2012 while flying missions in Central and South America in support of America's war on drugs.

Most recently he transitioned to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

Geyer began his NASA career in 1990 at NASA Johnson in the New Business Directorate.

He joined the International Space Station Program in 1994, where he served a variety of roles until 2005,

including chair of the Space Station Mission Management Team,

manager of the ISS Program Integration Office

and NASA lead negotiator with Russia

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